Kill the Electoral College

[Bob Butler 54]

(12-31-2016, 04:03 AM)Galen Wrote:

(12-30-2016, 08:06 AM)Odin Wrote:

(12-29-2016, 11:20 PM)Galen Wrote: the federal government has been operating well beyond the limits of the Constitution for decades.

The SCOTUS obviously disagrees.

Doesn't mean that they are right.  Having read the Constitution, Federalist Papers and the Anti-Federalist papers, I can be quite confident about the limits the federal government is supposed to have.  I doubt that you or Eric the Obtuse will bother to do this since reading what the people who wrote the Constitution had to say about won't give you the answer you want.

As one of the few progressives who respected Scalia, I'll agree with Galen and Odin.  My only quibble is that I'd have said 'centuries' rather than Galen's 'decades'.  The founding fathers were much more concerned with limiting powers than subsequent generations.  The Supreme Court has allowed itself to put political motives ahead of the letter of the law throughout history.  While I haven't read the Federalist or Anti-Federalist papers, I have researched the 2nd Amendment and other question enough to concur with Odin's confidence.